A close shot of 17-year-old Canadian figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond performing a high kick at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships has turned controversial. the Star reports.
Globe and Mail Public Editor Sylvia Stead quickly declared it “not acceptable” and explained why in a column by midday Monday.
Sylvia Stead's column
Sylvia Stead's column
Globe Photo Editor Dennis Owen amplified that sentiment.
“I would not have done it myself,” Owen told Maurie Sherman, KISS 92.5’s senior producer of the Roz & Mocha Show.
“It’s not our policy to run photos like that.”
The skater herself said in a Twitter post: “Reaction to photo: it’s not a bad pic. It could have been better, it also could have been worse. I’m excited to be on the cover pic isn’t bad.”
The Globe, the Toronto Star’s Steve Russell and Reuters all shot the same moment of Osmond’s routine. The Globe’s picture appeared on its front page Monday, the Star’s picture appeared online only on Sunday and the Reuters’ photograph moved on its wire Sunday but as a full-length picture of a high kick.
A reader, using the handle "melodytime," posted this comment on the Globe's web page:
" . . .the photographer, Kevin Van Paassen, decided to photograph and I guess the editor of the Globe OK'd it, showing 2/3'rds of Kaetlyn's crotch? Are you guys all born and; stuck in 1953? So so tacky. . . ."
(Have these people never read the Sun?--ed)
A reader, using the handle "melodytime," posted this comment on the Globe's web page:
" . . .the photographer, Kevin Van Paassen, decided to photograph and I guess the editor of the Globe OK'd it, showing 2/3'rds of Kaetlyn's crotch? Are you guys all born and; stuck in 1953? So so tacky. . . ."
(Have these people never read the Sun?--ed)
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